If you love R.E.M. and weren't at Carnegie Hall last night, you should probably do a better job at loving R.E.M. The evening was billed as a tribute to the Athenian eye-smilers, which meant career-spanning covers by everyone from Kyp... CONTINUE READING R.E.M. JOINS PATTI SMITH'S R.E.M. TRIBUTE»
Posted on March 12, 2009 in , (5 comments)
Tags: Fever Ray | Glen Hansard | Jeff Mangum | Jimmy Fallon | Michael Stipe | Neutral Milk Hotel | Patti Smith | R.E.M. | The Swell Season
Well, maybe that's not entirely true. Despite the fact that Fallon mentions Stipe (nice recession beard) is his first guest with "nothing to promote," the R.E.M. frontman shows up with a bronze-cast camera sculpture and the two talk about tonight's... CONTINUE READING MICHAEL STIPE PROMOTES NOTHING ON JIMMY FALLON»
Posted on March 11, 2009 in (13 comments)
Tags: Interpol | Jimmy Fallon | Julian Plenti | Michael Stipe | R.E.M. | U2
From the Roots as house band to Van Morrison and Justin Timberlake (nice guy, says Wayne Coyne) to Santigold and Spank Rock, we've been closely covering the nascent days of Jimmy Fallon's show. Last night the nervous one hosted Clap... Jimmy Fallon'">CONTINUE READING CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH DEBUT "STATUES" FOR JIMMY FALLON»
Posted on March 5, 2009 in (17 comments)
Tags: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | Jimmy Fallon | Mika Miko | Ryan Adams
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon was good last night! (See also: Tina Fey was a guest last night). This time the show brought music-related content via Jon Bon Jovi karaoke and a performance by Santigold and Philly pal Spank Rock... Late Night With Jimmy Fallon'">CONTINUE READING SANTIGOLD AND SPANK ROCK "SHOVE IT" ON LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON»
Posted on March 4, 2009 in (10 comments)
Tags: Black Lips | Jimmy Fallon | Ryan Adams | Santigold | Spank Rock
Add Robert De Niro and you've got yourself an opening night bill trying to please everyone on a show that's otherwise clearly about targeting young men and their twitter accounts. So maybe the Astral Weeks-pimping Van Morrison fit on the... CONTINUE READING THE ROOTS, VAN MORRISON, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE HELP COVER THE DEMOGRAPHIC SPREAD ON THE LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON DEBUT»
Posted on March 3, 2009 in (16 comments)
Tags: Headlights | Jimmy Fallon | Justin Timberlake | Stephen Malkmus | The Roots | Van Morrison
Obviously the gossip at last night's Deerhunter show was all about NBC's decision to give Jay Leno a talk show weeknights at 10 PM. What does this mean for Conan, who is taking over the Tonight Show timeslot? Or Jimmy... CONTINUE READING JIMMY FALLON AND QUESTLOVE TO START PRACTICING THEIR BANTER»
Posted on December 9, 2008 in (0 comments)
Tags: Girl Talk | Jimmy Fallon | The Roots
So says ?uestlove! Or, so says a rumor that so says ?uestlove. Jimmy (aka Bag Of Hair) is taking over Conan's seat next year, and having Ahmir for interstitial banter would be at least one factor mitigating his show being... CONTINUE READING THE ROOTS TO BE JIMMY FALLON'S HOUSE BAND?»
Posted on November 17, 2008 (2 comments)
Tags: Jimmy Fallon | The Kills | The Roots
After listening to this you might think, well isn't this more a "remix" rather than a 'newly updated song' as the 25th Anniversary Thriller boxset would have you believe? There's three ways to establish you'd be wrong, shamon: 1) That's... CONTINUE READING NEW MICHAEL JACKSON (FEAT. KANYE WEST) - "BILLIE JEAN '08"»
Posted on December 20, 2007 in (17 comments)
Tags: Jack Black | Jimmy Fallon | Kanye West | Mark Ronson | Michael Jackson
What would disappoint an avid NYC high-culture music buff more: that we've only been to Carnegie Hall twice in the past year? Or that both times were to see Rufus Wainwright? Well it's true, we don't get down to Ravel... CONTINUE READING RUFUS WAINWRIGHT & FRIENDS @ CARNEGIE HALL, NYC 12/13/06»
Posted on December 18, 2006 in (12 comments)
Tags: Antony Hegarty | Jimmy Fallon | Laurie Anderson | Lou Reed | Martha Wainwright | Rufus Wainwright
